Immune surveillance and antigen conformation determines humoral immune response to the prion protein immunogen

Journal of NeuroVirology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 401-413

  Rubenstein, Richard ^a,b   Kascsak, Richard J ^a   Papini, Michael ^a   Kascsak, Regina ^a   Carp, Richard I ^a   LaFauci, Giuseppe ^a   Meloen, Rob ^a   Langeveld, Jan ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE INSTITUTE FOR BASIC RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Continuous and discontinuous epitopes; Pepscan; Prion protein; PrP antibodies; Rabbit PrP

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; EPITOPE; PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAMSTER; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SHEEP;

EID: 0032793076     PISSN: 13550284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13550289909029481     Document Type: Article

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